different between fulcrum vs etal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fulcrum (“bedpost, foot of a couch”), from fulci? (“prop up, support”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?lk.??m/
• (UK) also IPA^(key): /?f?lk.??m/

Noun

fulcrum (plural fulcrums or fulcra)

1. (mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.

   It is possible to flick food across the table using your fork as a lever and your finger as a fulcrum.

   • 2010, John Allison, Bad Machinery

     MILDRED: Archimedes said give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I will move the world.

     CHARLOTTE: Yeah she said that twaddle eight or nine times.
2. (figuratively) A crux or pivot; a central point.
   • 2006, Rebecca Langlands, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome (page 119)

     By this point the fulcrum of concern is the stuprum of men upon men, described as more prevalent than that upon women.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From fulci? +? -crum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ful.krum/, [?f???k????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ful.krum/, [?fulk?um]

Noun

fulcrum n (genitive fulcr?); second declension

1. bedpost
2. foot (of a couch)
3. couch

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• Catalan: fulcre
• English: fulcrum
• French: fulcrum
• Italian: fulcro
• Portuguese: fulcro
• Spanish: fulcro

References

• fulcrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fulcrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fulcrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fulcrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Marshallese

Etymology

From Proto-Micronesian *faSale, from Proto-Oceanic *pajale.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [?d??l?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /j?t?æl?/
• Bender phonemes: {yetal}

Verb

etal

1. to go

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary